Abstract

William Blake for me is the most sublimely unique artist, for the simple fact that he is the one artist who carved out his poems together with exquisite paintings and insisted on getting them printed by dint of illuminated paintings with the help of copper plates etched out by him. His absolute dependence on the Bible as the Great Code of Art is well known. The present study is an in-depth analysis of the two poems “The Lamb” and “The Tiger” against the background of the Bible, and set in the context of his idea of Innocence and Experience and at the same time deeming the text of the poems together with the painting on his illuminated page of that poem. A better understanding of these two poems is purported at by having recourse to them in this three-fold way. The article tries to establish that the answer to Blake’s rhetorical question “Did he who make the Lamb make thee?” is in the positive.

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